From:
Adèle-Athénaïs Mialaret (Athénaïs) Michelet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 172
Summary:
The Michelets are ill and dispirited.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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The Michelets are ill and dispirited.
Has just read Origin and Descent and wants to know: 1. Has man a soul? 2. Is man morally responsible "to his creative cause or force"? 3. Is there any form of after-life?
Thanks CD for Expression. Disagrees with his views on the genesis of melody; HS gives some reasons for believing it to originate in the natural cadences of emotional speech.